Trevian Books
Atlanta: Cousins Properties, n.d. [1989]. Rental prospectus for the 50-story building in downtown Atlanta, still under construction (completed in 1990). Showing floor plans for your law offices, other amenities rendered and imagined, the neighborhood, transportation, etc. With 6 page catalog of recent Johnson/Burgee projects. First edition. 38 cm; 51 pp.;.....
Washington DC: Project for Public Spaces, 1984. A handbook for building and maintaining public spaces based on a ten-year study of more than 50 cities of varying sizes. With chapters on supplementing city services, creating marketplaces, design improvements, and management programs, with case study examinations of programs in Hartford and.....
London: Imperial War Museum, 2005. A guide for exhibitions in the new museum building, the 2002 design by Daniel Libeskind representing "a globe shattered by conflict into 3 pieces or shards." Showing interior spaces and exterior. 28 cm; 48 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.....
New York: The Authors, 2007. A documentation of the architects’ work for ACORN Housing Corp.’s redevelopment project to create pre-fab housing for 400 sites in New Orleans. Also showing examples of projects and completed works by dArchitects and Gansstudio in other locations. First edition. 17.5 cm; 46 pp.; illustrated from.....
New York: Gwathmey Siegel, N.d. [1985]. A portfolio of ten photographs showing how the firm transformed an "existing environment designed by us seven years previously, without a major spacial reorganization...the texture, materiality, color, articulation and inherent objectness of the [Austrian Secessionist] furniture creates both the intimacy of scale and the.....
A set of 24 snapshots (12.5 x 9 cm) from the November 1971 installation of bench at Northridge Lakes. Individuals unidentified; photographs dated and stamped on rear.
Berkeley: UC Press, 1965. Measurements, drawings, close examination, excavation, and photographs of the large barn at Great Coxwell, to establish its construction during the first decades of the 13th century, and a proposed reconstruction of the ruins of the barn at Beaulieu-St. Leonard’s in Hampshire. First edition. 36 cm; 74.....
Washington DC: Urban Land Institute, 1974. A mid-1970’s aid to developers of golf courses and golf course-based residential communities showing varieties of existing layouts, course designs, clubhouse details, construction methods and costs, etc. Jones is a golf course architect and Rando a landscape architect. First edition. 28 cm; 105 pp.;.....
New York: Municipal Art Society, 1999. A late-20th century plea, in quite a large illustrated format, for reconsideration of New York’s zoning laws and loopholes, most stemming from 1961 regulations; an effort to limit excessive height, empty plazas, dead streetscapes, paved gardens, and Trump, in any manifestation. An uncharacteristically vibrant.....
Oxford: Symm & Co., 1998. Trade catalog for the Symm Co., Oxford builders responsible for much of the University’s construction, renovation, and restoration since the early 19th century. Showing work in Classical, Gothic Revival, and eclectic styles. The company does work outside of Oxford and internationally, but this title focuses.....
Gloucester: LePage, n.d. A cut-and-glue cardboard model house kit published by LePage, who manufactured glue from fish in Gloucester, MA. The finished house is roughly 7 in. high, on a 8.5 x 7.5 inch base. Unopened. No clue as to date but no garages, a 10 cent price, and I’m.....
Princeton: Policy Research Inst., 2006. A conference sponsored by the Van AlenInst., Princeton School of Arch., and the Wilson Inst. to examine how political andeconomic forces shape competitions for public projects, and how they are realized. Also an analysis of how the American architecture competition is seen by the architect.....
Philadelphia: MGA, 2008. Trade catalog for the Philadelphia firm highlighting work since 2000, and paying tribute to the 50th anniversary of the founding of Mitchell/Giurgola in 1958. First edition. 23 cm; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Repaired tear to dust jacket; else a very good copy in stiff card wrappers.....
Buffalo: Univ. Buffalo School of Architecture, 2003. Text of Mori's 2003 lecture at the University of Buffalo School of Arch. She describes her current work in the context of materials, as well as discussing important early Modern architecture. First edition. 25.5 cm; 46 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings.....
New York: Morse Diesel, n.d. [c. 1985]. 1980s trade catalog for the major construction management company, with pretty color photographs of recent projects, interspersed with pages of achingly vacuous copy containing almost no information. 33 cm; 46 pp.; illustrated from photographs. Uneven fading to covers; else a very good copy.....
Bronx: The Gardeners Forum of the NYBG, 1940. Journal of the Forum published by student-gardeners involved in the training program at the NYBG and other employees. Group photograph (real) of the 1940 NYBG Gardening Staff tipped-in, with identifying key. With lists of Apprentice- and Student-gardeners, including former students and their.....
Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1994. Facsimiles of Repton’s original books for Brandsbury at Wilsden, Middlesex, from 1789, and for Glemham Hall in 1791. Reproduced, complete with all views of original and alternate suggestions by Repton, at actual size but not presented with the typical overlays. With an Introduction by Stephen.....
New York: Rizzoli, 1990. Monograph and catalog for a 1990 exhibition on the largely forgotten American architect living in France, best known for his hospital and medical facility architecture. First edition. 23 cm; 150 pp.; illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings. A fine copy in wrappers.
Paris: Archipress, 1993. Trade catalog for the French publisher of architectural images. Showing photographs of 20th century buildings by Robert César, Peter Cook, Luc Boegly, Patrick Tourneboeuf, others. First edition. 24 cm; 41 pp.; illustrated from photographs. A very good copy or better in wrappers.
Tokyo: Kajima Institute, 1979. November 1979 issue of this Japanese periodical primarily devoted to the life and work of Lloyd Wright, the eldest son of FLW. With Eulogy by Bruce Goff, and remembrance essay by son Erick. Showing examples of Lloyd Wright’s work in houses, churches, planning, and projects from.....
New York: New York City Street Tree Consortium, Inc., 2000. Textbook for the street tree pruning course sponsored by the NYC Dept. of Parks. Graduates will be licensed as Citizen Pruners. With Urban Leaf and Tree Handbook to rear pocket. Fifth edition, originally published in 1992. 28 cm; 95 pp.;.....
Brussels: Archives d’Architecture Moderne, 1979. A collection, in French, of Van de Velde’s writings, including La Triple Offense à la Beauté, Le Nouveau (1929), Max Elskamp (1933), La Voie Sacrée (1933), and La Colonne. From the library of architect and scholar Detlef Mertins, with his ink signature. First edition thus.....
Vienna: Architekturzentrum Wien, 2003. Catalog for the 2003 exhibition in Vienna and New York of recent affordable housing projects built in Vienna. Showing work by Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Raimond Abraham, Coop Himellelb(l)au, others. First edition. 20 cm; 24 pp.; illustrated from photographs and drawings. A fine copy in.....
Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1911. A photographic survey of Wright’s work published in Germany in 1911. Generally considered to be the American edition, despite its German title, of the Sonderheft (originally published as an accompaniment to the Wasmuth Portfolio, the large collection of 100 lithographs of Wright’s work), but this edition.....
